EN 3535 Lecture Notes - Michel De Montaigne, Philomela
Document Summary
Lecture 3 titus andronicus part 2 sept 27. Sources: livy"s history of rome, book 3 (story of appius and verginia) Early history of rome; transition from monarchy to republic. Corrupt magistrate (appius) secretly arranges for a young woman (verginia, betrothed to another man) to be abducted from her father"s house, enslaved. When her father seeks justice, appius rules against him. Rather than see his daughter sent to a brothel", verginius, a respected soldier, kills her. Rioting ensued, and verginius raised a rebellion, ousting of corrupt officials, restoring justice, and establishing new laws to protect rights and freedoms of the roman people: ovid"s metamorphoses, book 6 (story of tereus and philomela) Tereus (a king) abducts and rapes philomela (his wife"s sister); tier her hands and cuts out her tongue. She weaves her story into a piece of cloth, has it delivered to the queen (procne, wife of tereus). In her rage, procne kills her son, itys, because he looks like tereus.
